Andreas Herzog

Andreas "Andi" Herzog (born 10 September 1968) is a former Austrian football player. He has played for Austria national team.

Andi Herzog
Andreas Herzog Wien2008.jpg
Herzog in 2018
Personal information
Full nameAndreas Herzog
Date of birth (1968-09-10) 10 September 1968 (age 55)
Place of birthVienna, Austria
Height1.84 m (6 ft 0 in)
Playing positionAttacking midfielder
Club information
Current team
South Korea (assistant manager)
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
1986–1992Rapid Wien133(33)
1988First Vienna (loan)7(3)
1992–1995Werder Bremen94(26)
1995–1996Bayern Munich28(2)
1996–2001Werder Bremen142(32)
2002–2003Rapid Wien41(4)
2004Los Angeles Galaxy27(4)
Total472(104)
National team
1988–2003Austria103(26)
Teams managed
2005Austria (caretaker)
2008–2009Austria (assistant coach)
2009–2011Austria U21
2011–2016United States (assistant coach)
2015–2016United States U23
2018–2020Israel
2021–2022Admira Wacker
2023–South Korea (assistant coach)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only

Career

Andreas Herzog started his career with SK Rapid Wien. 1987 and 1988 he won the championship with this team and 1987 the Cup, but he played only few matches. Regularly he played since 1988. 1992 he went on to Werder Bremen in the German Bundesliga, where he reached the championship 1994. Bayern München became interested and so he went, together with his mentor and coach Otto Rehagel to Muinich. But this year was not successful so he went back to Bremen. There he won the German Cup the second time. In Germany he played 264 matches for Bremen and Muinich and shot 59 goals(15 penalties).

In the winter of 2001–02 he went back to Vienna where he played two seasons for Rapid again. There he was team captain. In Austria he scored 50 goals in 201 games in all competitions. His last team was Los Angeles Galaxy, where he played 27 matches and scored four goals.

International

With 103 international matches Andreas Herzog is record holder in Austria. He played his first match on April 6th, 1988 against Greece(2:2). With the team he played in the FIFA World Cup 1990 in Italy and 1998 in France. He played his last match on April 30th, 2003 in Glasgow against Scotland.

Manager career

2005 he was ambassador for the UEFA Euro 2008. After Hans Krankl resinged he became coach of the national team for the last two qualifying matches for the FIFA World Cup 2006. Afterwards he became assistant coach under Josef Hickersberger and Karel Brückner. Since 2009 he is coach of the Austrian U21-team. On 17 December 2011 he went to the USA where he became assistant coach to Jürgen Klinsmann for the USA national football team.

On TV he has been the match analyst for the pay TV group Sky.

Club career statistics

[1]

Club performance League
SeasonClubLeague AppsGoals
AustriaLeague
1987–88 Rapid Wien Bundesliga 5 0
1987–88 First Vienna Bundesliga 7 3
1988–89 Rapid Wien Bundesliga 34 8
1989–90 27 8
1990–91 30 6
1991–92 33 11
GermanyLeague
1992–93 Werder Bremen Bundesliga 33 10
1993–94 30 6
1994–95 31 10
1995–96 Bayern Munich Bundesliga 28 2
1996–97 Werder Bremen Bundesliga 29 15
1997–98 18 4
1998–99 27 3
1999–00 27 7
2000–01 32 2
2001–02 9 1
AustriaLeague
2001–02 Rapid Wien Bundesliga 12 1
2002–03 29 3
United StatesLeague
2004 Los Angeles Galaxy Major League Soccer 27 4
Country Austria 177 40
Germany 264 60
United States 27 4
Total 468 104

International career statistics

[2]

Austria national team
YearAppsGoals
1988 4 2
1989 9 1
1990 9 0
1991 6 0
1992 8 2
1993 7 3
1994 3 0
1995 5 2
1996 5 2
1997 8 1
1998 7 1
1999 5 4
2000 7 1
2001 10 5
2002 7 2
2003 3 0
Total 103 26

Other websites

References

  1. Strack-Zimmermann, Benjamin. "Andreas Herzog". www.national-football-teams.com.
  2. "Andreas Herzog - Century of International Appearances". www.rsssf.com.